The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1946, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT SLOT MACHINE TAX EFFECTIVE ON JULY FIRST Liabilities Under New Law Stated by Depariment of Taxation ‘Territorial Tax Commissioner M P. Mulaney today advised of im- pending new taxes upon the opera- tion of amusement devices, slot ma- chines and similar mechanical con- trivances, becoming effective July 1, under the provision of a new "Territor statute passed by the Legislature in special session this year. The Department of Taxation re- leased the following statement, ad- vising of tax liabilities under the new law: Chapter 40 of the Cession Laws ol Alaska, 1946, An Act passed by the recent Extraordinary Session of the Territorial Legislature repeals Chap- ter 76 of the Session Laws of A ka, 1941, and provides for lice and fees for amusement devi pinball and slot mach regulates and controls and operator the usz of said machines, provides pe for violation thereof and for other purposes. The old law levied an Excise T: of 12 1-2 percent cn the gross receipts taken in on every machine, instrument or device which was operated by means of a coin, bingle, trade check, s other article. The new la ever, places a fixed fee for a li- cense and a fixed fee for a tax stamp on every amusement devise pinball or slot machine of t or leased for operation LICENSE FEE AND TAX STAMPS REQUIRED Every amusement device onerator in the Territory of Alaska shall ob- tain a license from the Territorial Tax Commissioner and shall pay therefor a fee of $30.00 p nuse- ment device operated or 1 1 operation. - Every amusement devicz in operation shall have attached thereto, a stamp to be issued the Tax Commissioner, ing that such device may be operated during the year appearing on the face of the stamp. Such stamps may | purchased from the Tax Commi sjoner for $25.00 each by a licens- ed amusement device operator only, and each operator shall purchase one stamp for each machine which he has been licensed to operate. This means that a total of $55.00 (icense and stamp tax) for each amusement device placed in opers tion or leased for operation mu be paid to the Department of Tax ation, except: by Every pinball or slot machine op- erator in the Territory of Alaska shall obtain a license from the Tax Commissioner and shall pay therefor a fee of $30.00 per pinball or slotmachine operated or leased for operation. Every pinball or slot- machine in operation shall have at- tazned thereto a stamp to be issued | must be paid to the Department of Taxation. VIOLATIONS The operation of any amusement device or pinball or slot machine requiring more than a twenty-five cent coin to manipulate or operate |is hereby prohibited and made un- lawful, excepting coin-operated *phonographs or machines vending merchandise wherein no element of chance is involved in operation 'or otherwise | The operation of any pinball or machine by any person under age of twenty-one years shali slot t not be permitted by any operator | or other person having such machine in his charge. No pinball or slot machine shall located or operated be placed, used within a radius of one hundred yards of any school building. The licenses and stamps requirac to be secured herein shall not be | required until July 1, 1946, and | shall expire on December 31, 1946, | and the fees or charges for the in- | 1 pericd (July 1 to December 1946) shall be 50 percent of the forth above. Licenses and ued thercafter for fees set tamps shall be the calendar y - 40 GIRL SCOUTS | ARECFFTO CAMP | LEAVING SUNDAY the ! Girl outs left for Y River Scout camp Sunday with the new scout director, Mrs.; Ferol Onstott, who arrived here Friday from Seattle of | the gi ill remain at one we and others ha ed for the full two-weeks term. A thorough clean-up job and| readying of plished Friday by four . senior scouts who were taken to the camp Friday by Mrs. Marcus Jensen of | Dcuglas. Mr Jensen and the| outs “had the camp in A-1 con-| dition” for the first visit of the new director, said Mrs. C. C. Carter,| Girl Scout head in Juneau. She| complimented their work highly. | The scouts left from the Grade! at 10 o'clock Sun- oup numbering ap- will leave for the| School building day. Another proximately 15 camp at that time next Sunday. ! | Transportation to and from the camp is by private car. Mrs. Cart-| said Juneau residents with auto-| nobiles have been “exceedingly co- operative” in furnishing transpor- tation and that the Girl Scout or-:“’“m the political obscurity ganization sincerely appreciates it. With the girl scouts at the camp are Mrs. D. H. Gould, nurse, and Mrs. S. Stevenson, general compan- ion. All girl scout mail is to be de- posited in the specially displayed scout mail box in the lobby of the Baranof Hotel. Mail will livered Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. If posted before 10 a. m. on these days, the mail will be de- not be a Socialist. livered the same day. GARDEN CLUB IS TO e camp was accom- | be de-| : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA CRISISIN [Full Town of FRANCE IS | Jews Arrested MQUNTEN@; For Terrorism JERUSALEL:, cune i7 | population of the Jewish | ment of Beth Haavara was report All the settle- Socialists l—\?é—Sirong for Bidault-De Gaulle ed rested by Palestine police Makes Ta”( ter a night of widespread terror P d which two British soldiers and were killed by Arab marche eight highway and railway bric PARIS, June 17—The French governmental crisis mounted today when the Socialists spurned the Were damaged by blasts. presidency of the council and t An official police statement Moderate Popular Republican move- | Plamed Jewish teprorists for the ment reaffirmed the candidacy of | bridze explosions. Foreign Minister George Bidault.| Degs Pick Up Trail The Commun| have refured to| The revort of the mass arrest of support any me the Moderate | Beth Haavara residents, although | unconfirmed officially by was received from reliable polic sources. new party head Gen. Charles De Gaulle, often aj lican Movement (MRP), emerged|police frem the Allenby bridge he en-jacrcss the Jordan, one of 'those tered upon resigning the presidency|damaged, to the small collectiv x months ago, by declaring in a|settlement on the Dead Sea shore. speech at Bayeux that he favored It w. |a strong executive and a two cham- | army unit surrounded the village |ber legislature for the Fourth Re- and carried out a complete search. public. me residents of the little Jew- Hope for immediate solution of!ish community reportedly offered the cri dimmed. | “passive 1 tance” against'' the The Socialist party searcher resulting in a minor | General, Daniel Mayer, |clash in which two Jews were in- The President of the cabinet can The desires or cisions of the other parties can- {not modify the will of the National | Council of the Socialist. party. We|tier in the vicinity of the damaged | will leave to the parties more fav-| pridges. jored than we the direction of the Eight Bridges Out Jjured. Meanwhile, the army continued concerted search of all villages along the Palestine fron- and police sociated with the Popular Repub- | This report said that dogs led the' s understood that a British | ¢ {rait |government.” Four highway and four milita e ey Papimiisoner stdng | MEET WEDNESDAY< The MRP became the leading| prigges, including the important S SUlurcs g e operad |party in the new elections early|ajlenby bridge over the Jordan on during the year appearing on the! i i I | this month, taking the lead from|the main highway linking Pales- face gr the stamp. Such stamps' The Juneau Garden Club Will the Communists who dropped t0 &, ine and Tr‘a?xsjor(yiama wire i may be purchased from the Tax n}eet Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 | ¢jose second place. The Socialists, doved” InsissnbIE the Ipolice o gg:n?e?m;:;afim 8«1150'00 frl:h bynB OGTI?(\k 2 ihe mome of Mrs. A E.marked losers in the election, drob-| irpe pogy of one Jew and por- and or slot. mach- Glover Re SN ;| i B tions of the bedy of another were with Mrs. Charles Forward peq from second to third, and So- ine operator only, and each opera- assisting. | cialis resi i 301 F: i S5 e purchase one stamp Ior; et linliimn}ab};:;ldl?:\!‘c ffil‘ifin&.um and [o‘,:rd 1?e.a? a : damaged railway each machine which said operator| The jackrabbit got its name from | pe Gaulle’s proposals are :imilnrqb“ ge near the village or“Azsz, has been licensed to operate. This the fact that its large ears were|(, tnose of the MRP. < which was attacked by “armed means that a total of $180.00 (ii-|thought to resemble those of R yJews dressed in military uniform,”| cense and stamp tax) for each pin- | jackass. a police statement asserted. ball and/or slot machine placed in - e - Meanwhile, the Holy Land was stirred by a Jewish underground radio report that British authori- ties were planning to deport Zior ist leaders, and the Jewish agency urged the establishment of a Jew- - IN SALARY |ish state in Palestine as the only i lasting solution of the Palestine ANNOUN(ED = operation, or leased for operation,’ | | Empire Want* Ads bring resulis!| i | | | WASHINGTON, June 17.—Mo- | vies, horse racing and motor mak-| |ing accounted for the first five it places foday in a Treasury listing of 593 top paid Americans in 1944. Movie producer-director Leo Mc- Carey with 12-month earnings of 1$1,113,035, headed the list easily while Charles H. Strub, vice presi- dent of the Los Angeles Turf Club, | was lengths behind in second place | with $466,537. Movie financier Charles P. Skou- |ras and actor Fred MacMurray stood third and fourth with $393,- 000 and $391217, respectively, and | motormaker Charles E. Wilson,! | president of General Motors, was at $362,954. BECAUSE WE RIPEN The figures cover corporation payments of $75,000 or more for the | THEM RIGHT! EXTRA | calendar year 1944 and business fis- | cal years which ran into 1945. All' are listed before Federal, State and | cther taxes, which in most instanc- DEEP FLAVOR. FULL FRESH VITAMIN CONTENT Théy Couldn’t | Be Better - eee — : WED IN DOUGLAS ‘ | An early morning wedding cere-t mony performed at his Douglas; home Saturday by U. S. Commis- sioner Felix Gray united Mary| Olive Vaisvila and Mel Stafford, both of Juneau. Attendants were| Leo L. Lazetti and Martina Wick- | man silver contains no sil-} it's a silver-white alloy of cop-! nickel and zine ’ } PHONE 16 or 24—Free Delivery ve * per, »word for cow. or bes. SMALLEST RAILW A Y_This smallest public railroad in the world—the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch light railway in Kent, England—has been demobilized and reopened to passengers. Its tracks are of 15-inch gauge with cars built to scale. Like other British railways, during the war it was fitted with anti-aircraft guns to fight the enemy. D. A. GILMORE RETURNS FROM D. C. MEETING Gilmore, Jr.. United ey for the First Judi- Alaska, returned to Patrick J States Att cial Division, his headquarters here this weekend. flew He south more than three week o to attend a conference of district attorneys from all over the United States and po: sions, held in Washington, D. C., May 23 and 24. Following the conference, Gilmore remained another week in the Na- tional Capital, discussing the prob- lems of this Division with officials of the Justice Department; among them G-Man Chief J. Edgar Hoover. He disclosed that he also met Presi- dent Harry Truman and listened in as the President addressed the joint session of Congress on his proposal for emergency la egislation. Gilmore reports that Washington was a v tense town at the time of the railway strike climax; with the big question in the air being: What will the President do about the Case Bill? On his way back to Juneau, the D. A. stopped at Ketchikan for the closirg davs of the Court term there 'FOES OF ARMED " FORCES MERGER 60 UNAPPEASED Chance for Passage Is Re- ' mofe - Concessions Tag- | ged Too Little, Too Late WASHINGTON, Jjune 17.—Army- | Navy merger foes pasted a “too | little and too late” label on Presi- dent Truman's revised unification | plan today. They took the attitude that the concessions the President and the War Department made to the sea {arm on such points as the Marine | Corps and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were insufficient to overcome prev- ious objections. And wita only four weeks before Congress plans to quit work, they | said the prospects of final action at sion are remote. Senator Robertson (R.-Wyo.), in | comment typical of those who have | been criticak of earlier merger pro- 1s, said Mr. Truman'’s plan “still the insurmountable defect of the Secretary of the Army, Navy and | GEORGE BROTHER Juneaw’s Pldest Sauper Market Phone 92-95—2 Free Deliveries Daily STORE HOURS 8 A. M. TOG6 P. M. | Alr Forees bers.” These three offices would be sub- | Stuart, | ordinate to the Secretary of National | Deiense under the administration | plan, and Robertson, a member of the Senate Naval Committee, told a | “I am fearful of one man |glad to see that Mr. Truman “de- | cided to leave the Marines in be- | ing” and that the Army had bowed to the Navy in favor of the present Joint Chiefs of Staff. | entire new merger plan differs in | few major respects from the pro- | posal Mr. Truman first submitted to Congress last December. PAN AMERICAN FLIES MANY, PAST WEEKEND Pan An an A 5 iliew the | foliowing passengers to and from attle, Ke an, Whitehorse, over the weekend. Saturday from Seattle: J. B. Jo- hansen, Harry Haack, Wayne Axel- son, Beth Stoddard, Irvin Hadfield, Jeannette Bulmer, Ronald Bulmer, James Peterson, George Garrett, and Fairbank JUST HNuces . Miracle Whip Salad Dressing ‘ Gieiosi-§ ounce Package Velveeta-Half pourd and 2 Ib. Packages Assorted Cheese Spreads in Jars and conducted Naturalizations pro-' ceeding for the admittance of sev- eral new citizens last Thursday. Judge George F. Alexander, he re- vealed, is still convalescing from the illness that kept him in the States | through last winter. He also suf- fered a setback from a fall in Ket- chikan, but was able to return to the bench to conciude the Ketchikan term. The full Court party is ex- pected to return to Juneau this week on the steamer The party besides the Judge in- cludes: Mrs. Alexander, Clerk of Court Jechn Walmer, Reporter Mil- dred Maynard and Francis H. P. Rogers, bailiff. - - MARRIED HEHRE Martin of Ju- William Ceorge, Lillian Frances neau and Cyril in a ceremony performed by the Rev. Walter A. Soboleff, Minister of the Memorial Presbyterian | Church. Attending the couple were Mrs. Ruth G. Martin and Rodney | W. Hunter. e The nickname Bossy for a cow | probably is derived from the Latin THE WHOLE TOWN IS TALKING Sophisticated Screwball JIMMY CASANOVA . with , HY SEAMAN and S b JERRY NOTTINGHAM and the “Sepia Songbird” DEDE EARLE / | ersham. Mr. Stafford is employed { . ar as a cook and the bride is a former s popular musician in Douglas. ‘\ North Sea. | Another Shipment of Fresh Roasted MANNING'S COFFEE3Ibs.$1.00 French Dressing Jack Cheese ANB Aside frem the decision to retain | | the Joint Chiefs instead of setting | | up a single military commander to |be rotated among the services, the | MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1946 not veing Cabinet mem- [Edna Garrett, Roy Dorothy, Edna Dorothy, Gladys Cain, William Helen Smith, Robert Car- ter, Donald Skuse; from Fair- banks, William Skinner, Marguer- ite Skinner, and Franz Nehammer. To Fairbanks: Norman Stines, Roy Dougias. Yesterday, from Seattle passen- gers were: James Moscrip, Thom- as Crooks, Robert Manthey, Marie McKenzie, Kirk Stone, Don Davis, Elliott Hall, James = Marihygh, Wayne Conrad, Jan Borseth, May Conrad, Richard Johanson, Nina Nelson; to Ketchikan, J. M. Gus- taffson; frbm Whitehorse, Horace Marks, Jennie Marks, James Marks. From Fairbanks, Ann Roberison, Jack O’Connor. ‘To Seattle. Simpson Norman Banfield, MacKinnon, Franz Ne- | hammer, Agnes Britt, Grace Camp- en, Anne Turner, Edward Turner, Flcrence Dawe, Frank Dawe, Jud; Dawe, Willia Campbell Gladys Cunningham, Scott Cun- ningham, Timothy Cunningham, Scott Cunningham, Katheleén Cunningham, Earl Cunningham, Otto Barfty, John Guerin, Harold Stjern, Etolin Wittanen, Frederick Wittanen, Clare Wittenan, Trudy Ellis, Tom Hellan, Louis Roehm, W. C. Arncld, Archie Stewart, George Alfors, Allen Shattuck. i | | MQ“WNMOOWWW Angoon, were married here Friday | Visit THE NUGGET SHOP ‘ And Seleet a Gift where you may choose from a wide variety of exclusive items . . . PIPES —WALLETS of genuine leather, Pocket 1 Knives, Books, Desk Sets, Ivory Cigarette Holders, Cribbage Boards, Alaska-made Moccasins, Nugget Charms, Tie Clips in gold, silver or ivory, Nugget Scarf Pins, Belt Buckles and many other useful articles. . Come In and Browse Around . . . . Visitors Welcome! e ¢ T 4